German Reader 1.1

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Description

German Reader 1.1 contains 34 original short stories. There is no central theme, nor are there central characters. The stories are mostly in present tense. Three of the present tense stories are repeated in conversational past. In addition to those three stories in two tenses, four stories are in conversational past only.

At the beginning of each story is a list of the target vocabulary for that story. In each story there are also words/phrases in bold type which are provided to challenge students. At the end of each story the students can find the English meanings of the words/phrases in bold type. The stories come with graduated grammatical structures.

The target vocabulary used in the stories builds upon itself. For example the tenth story uses not only the target vocabulary for that story, but also uses vocabulary already learned in the previous nine stories. At the end of each story is a list of questions about the story. There are attractive sketches that help “tell” the stories.

Audio CD version

An Audio CD of all 34 stories being read at a pace that will enable students to comprehend the stories is available. Students can read the stories in class while listening to the audio CD and teachers can save their voice by when class is doing group reading. The reading of each story includes the questions at the end.

Three of the 34 stories are written in two tenses so the total number of stories that a student can listen to is 37. The length of the recording of the 37 stories with questions is 170 minutes or an average recording time of 4 minutes 35 seconds for each story.

Classroom use

Here are three ways to use this reader:

Supplemental reading

For TPRS or non-TPRS teachers, the reader can be used for supplemental reading.

Support for SABINE UND MICHAEL, Level 1

The target vocabulary closely mirrors the vocabulary of Michael Miller’s SABINE UND MICHAEL, Level 1 chapters 3 and 4. Teachers can have their students read the stories in support of their SABINE UND MICHAEL-based lessons.

TPRS lessons.

In my classroom, I use the TPRS method of language teaching. I teach the target vocabulary sequentially from story 1 to story 34. After the students have learned each new set of target vocabulary words/phrases in TPRS-based lessons, the students read the corresponding story.